Chapter I: Front Matter

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LOVE WORKS WONDERS.

A Novel.

by

BERTHA M. CLAY,

Author of

"Thrown on the World," Etc.

"O you, that have the charge of Love,
Keep him in rosy bondage bound,
As in the Fields of Bliss above
He sits with flowerets fetter'd round;
Loose not a tie that round him clings,
Nor ever let him use his wings;
For even an hour, a minute's flight
Will rob the plumes of half their light."
MOORE.

New York: G. W. Carleton & Co., Publishers, Street & Smith, New York Weekly. MDCCCLXXVIII.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1877, By Street & Smith, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.

Francis S. Street,} _Proprietors and Publishers_ Francis S. Smith, } Of the New York Weekly, The Leading Story and Sketch Paper of the Age.

TO

THE READERS OF THE

NEW YORK WEEKLY,

WHO FOR NEARLY TWENTY YEARS, HAVE
STOOD FAITHFULLY BY US, CHEERING
US IN OUR LABORS,
AND BIDDING US
GOD-SPEED;
TO WHOM OUR
PET JOURNAL HAS BECOME
A HOUSEHOLD WORD, AND WITHOUT
WHOSE AID WE COULD HAVE ACCOMPLISHED
NOTHING, THIS VOLUME IS RESPECTFULLY

DEDICATED

BY THE PUBLISHERS,

STREET & SMITH.

CONTENTS:

CHAPTER. PAGE.
I.--A GIRL WITH A CHARACTER 9
II.--"DARRELL COURT IS A PRISON TO ME!" 16
III.--"YOUR GOOD SOCIETY IS ALL DECEIT" 28
IV.--"YOU ARE GOING TO SPOIL MY LIFE" 35
V.--PAULINE'S GOOD POINTS 42
VI.--THE PROGRESS MADE BY THE PUPIL 47
VII.--CAPTAIN LANGTON 54
VIII.--THE INTRODUCTION 61
IX.--THE BROKEN LILY 67
X.--PAULINE STILL INCORRIGIBLE 74
XI.--HOW WILL IT END? 81
XII.--ELINOR ROCHEFORD 87
XIII.--SIR OSWALD THINKS OF MARRIAGE 94
XIV.--PAULINE'S LOVE FOR DARRELL COURT 103
XV.--BREACH BETWEEN UNCLE AND NIECE 108
XVI.--THE QUEEN OF THE BALL 115
XVII.--PAULINE'S BRIGHT FANCIES 122
XVIII.--REJECTED 128
XIX.--PAULINE THREATENS VENGEANCE 142
XX.--CAPTAIN LANGTON DESPERATE 148
XXI.--MYSTERIOUS ROBBERY 156
XXII.--FULFILLING THE CONTRACT 163
XXIII.--NO COMPROMISE WITH PAULINE 169
XXIV.--A RICH GIFT DECLINED 176
XXV.--A TRUE DARRELL 183
XXVI.--A PUZZLING QUESTION 189
XXVII.--SIR OSWALD'S DOUBTS 196
XXVIII.--READING OF THE WILL 203
XXIX.--WAITING FOR REVENGE 209
XXX.--WILL FATE AID PAULINE? 217
XXXI.--FATE FAVORS PAULINE 225
XXXII.--CAPTAIN LANGTON ACCEPTED 231
XXXIII.--"I HAVE HAD MY REVENGE!" 239
XXXIV.--THE STRANGER ON THE SANDS 247
XXXV.--THE STORY OF ELAINE 253
XXXVI.--REDEEMED BY LOVE 260
XXXVII.--PRIDE BROUGHT LOW 267
XXXVIII.--PAULINE AND LADY DARRELL 287
XXXIX.--FACE TO FACE 294
XL.--DYING IN SIN 303
XLI.--THE WORK OF ATONEMENT 308
XLII.--LOVE AND SORROW 314
XLIII.--LADY DARRELL'S WILL 321
XLIV.--SHADOW OF ABSENT LOVE 328

LOVE WORKS WONDERS.